Earth cooks up warmest November on record

Monthly averages in Russia go up by 14 degrees

12:25 AM,
Dec. 18, 2013

Written by

Doyle Rice
| USA Today

Fueled primarily by phenomenal warmth in Russia, the Earth as a whole had its warmest November on record, according to data released Tuesday by scientists at the National Climatic Data Center.

"Most of the world's land areas experienced warmer-than-average monthly temperatures, including much of Eurasia, coastal Africa, Central America and central South America. Much of southern Russia, northwest Kazakhstan, south India and southern Madagascar were record warm," the center reported.

The United States and much of North America were among the few parts of the world that were cooler ...